Job 24:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

Nehemiah 5:5

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Job 22:6

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Job 24:10

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Job 29:12

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

Job 6:27

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.